This Week on the Mercer Report:

Rick visits the winners of this year's Spread the Net Student Challenge. Congratulations Kew Beach Junior Public School in Toronto, ON; Algonquin College in Ottawa, ON; and John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute in Guelph, ON.

I love the Samara Institute; they’re an amazing charity. Their entire reason for being is to inspire Canadians to become more involved in democracy. What’s not to love? They aren't stuffy, they’ve got a great sense of humour. If you love politics, you could spend hours on their website.

The challenge is simple:

Every so often we'll post a new photo on this page. You'll download the photo and save it to your computer. Then, while you're at work open your favourite photo editing software and turn it into something special, like this, or this. Save your masterpiece and email a copy to